different between bereft vs disconsolate
bereft
English
Etymology
Form of bereaved; compare leave and left.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b????ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Verb
bereft
- simple past tense and past participle of bereave
Adjective
bereft (not comparable)
- (of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.
- Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of.
Translations
bereft From the web:
- what bereft means
- bereft what part of speech
- what does bereft mean
- what does bereft mean in the bible
- what is bereft land
- what does bereft of hope mean
- what is bereft of tuna
- what does bereft of deen mean
disconsolate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin disc?ns?l?tus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) +? c?ns?l?tus (“consoled”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /d?s?k?ns?l?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?k?ns?l?t/
Adjective
disconsolate (comparative more disconsolate, superlative most disconsolate)
- Cheerless, dreary.
- Synonyms: bleak, dreary, downcast; see also Thesaurus:cheerless
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]
- Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere's second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.
- 1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1.
- Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.
- 1885, Robert L. Steveson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, chapter 7.
- Sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.
- Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Pleasantness of Religion (sermon)
- overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow
- Synonyms: dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable
- Antonym: consolable
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Pleasantness of Religion (sermon)
Derived terms
- disconsolately
- disconsolation
- disconsolateness
Translations
Noun
disconsolate
- (obsolete) Disconsolateness.
Anagrams
- consolidates
Latin
Adjective
disc?ns?l?te
- vocative masculine singular of disc?ns?l?tus
disconsolate From the web:
- disconsolate meaning
- disconsolate what does that mean
- what part of speech is disconsolate
- what does disconsolate
- what does disconsolate prisoner mean
- what does disconsolate mean in english
- what does disconsolate mean in spanish
- what do disconsolate means
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- bereft vs disconsolate
- gesture vs mention
- instinct vs characteristic
- lot vs company
- tentative vs politic
- form vs tool
- unstirred vs languid
- packet vs multitude
- invalidation vs repeal
- joking vs playful
- numskull vs moron
- guild vs affiliation
- activity vs instrumentality
- rapturous vs heightened
- meet vs skilful
- whine vs scream
- immature vs puerile
- buffoonery vs skylarking
- friendly vs devoted
- description vs mould